The first week of community bonding is nearly over and already it’s quite an experience for me. Me and Alameyo were very nicely welcomed by members of the igniterealtime project which really took care of making us able to jump right into the project.

I spent most of the time making myself more familiar with the Smack codebase by working on my OMEMO pull request, which comes closer and closer to a mergeable state. Currently I’m working together with my mentor Flo to make the API of the module as easy to use as possible. I learned the hard way, that singletons and generics are a pain when used together, but in the end it worked out quite well I’d say, although there is still some work left to do.

During the week, I also came across some bugs in XMPP server software, which were a great opportunity to come in contact with other developers outside of the igniterealtime project. Everybody was nice and helpful. Its really pleasant to work with the community.

Lastly, I also got in touch with some other GSoC students, which is super fun. I really enjoy meeting people from other countries and it turns out, that everybody puts their pants on the same way.

I’ll post updates roughly on a weekly basis to document the course of events. Untill then 🙂

Happy Hacking!